Already familiar with Remixing VR Stories? Dive in with these VR Starter Projects (Note: Recommended browser: Firefox. Audio does not work in Chrome) About the Steps VR Remix Steps are the result of E4 Youth’s development of Virtual Storytelling Curriculum via a grant from the Mozilla Foundation. For more information click here. Tools There are a few […]
Net Neutrality and What I learned at Mozilla Festival This video does a decent job of explaining Net Neutrality. It’s been just over a month since I returned from London and MozFest, the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement. Just before I left, I wrote a #CarlGoneLearnVR blog post about my learning goals for […]
Finding Allies As We Diversify the Creative Workforce Yesterday morning, I had coffee with Austin copywriter Brian Thompson and at the end of our convo, he handed me a generous donation. Brian had heard about E4 Youth through Creative Mornings Austin talk by local comedian, ad guy and E4 volunteer Carlton Wilcoxson. After reflecting on […]
#CarlGoneLearnVR @ MozillaFest Remember when this was the way we got on the web? Well, in about 24 hours, I’ll be headed to the airport and off to Ravensbourne, London to nerd out at Mozilla Festival on everything digital. For my non nerd friends, the Mozilla Foundation is the non-profit arm of @Mozilla, makers of the […]
E4 Youth is Headed to London! Mozilla Foundation has invited E4 Youth to Ravensbourne London as a part of MozFest 2017. For the past 9 years, E4 Youth has worked with industry leaders in the creative sector to provide training, mentoring, job shadowing and employment opportunities to underserved creative youth in Austin Texas. Mozilla Foundation has invited […]
Social Entrepreneurs: Creating Our Own Paths Members of E4 Youth program Legacy ATX on the set of their 360 music video Onto Somethin’ The most important thing is to get started… It’s been almost ten years since I first started volunteering with a local high school audio video production class at John B. Connally high school […]
Opportunity Youth: Left Out of the Creative Class “Opportunity youth” — ages 16–24 considered under educated and under-employed. Great example of how to reach opportunity youth. YouthBuild Over the past few years, I have seen a lot of momentum gathering around the idea of remedying systematic inequalities across the U.S.. Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have […]
This past weekend was the fifth week of the Music Legacy Project. For the past month, we have been following student musicians who were given the opportunity to showcase themselves by collaborating and making an EP together. I was able to listen to what the young musicians have been creating these past few weeks. I […]
During SXSW 2016, I had an amazing time taking in the loud music. Despite being under 21 and barely getting into venues; I still managed to snatch a few interviews with some of the artists performing in town! I first met was electro pop duo SIGNY, official showcasing artists for SXSW. Long time internet friends […]
Every 72 hours, gun violence occurs in the United States. A total of 53,143 gun related incidents happened last year in 2015. Approximately 45 of them occurred on higher education establishments according to the Huffington Post. In Texas, there were an estimated two college campus shootings. One in which took place on the same day of […]